PCCI Recognition: D CEO includes PCCI in the 2024 Edition of the Dallas 500
For the fourth year in a row, PCCI’s CEO, Steve Miff, PhD, has been included in the DCEO #D500 list of top leaders in North Texas. The special edition of DCEO profiles the region’s most influential business, civic, and nonprofit leaders. This honor recognizes PCCI’s impactful mission to support the health of the most vulnerable in our communities. Read more about this honor here: https://lnkd.in/gHamqvKK
Read Dr. Miff’s profile here: https://www.dmagazine.com/sponsored/2021/12/steve-miff-named-among-dallas-500-honorees/
PCCI fighting back against rising infant mortality rates
In this DCEO article, PCCI’s Yolande Pengetnze, MD, MS, FAAP, Vice President, Clinical Leadership, was quoted and PCCI (and its partners) were shown as leaders in helping support at-risk, pregnant women in the community – in the wake of new data released by the CDC. This article shows the real, positive impact of the preterm birth prevention program.
Lack of health insurance and access to prenatal care is a significant factor for infant mortality, says Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a pediatrician at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. Other factors that increase infant mortality are Non Medical Drivers of Health, like transportation, healthy food, and childcare.
“When we see the data on infant mortality, an increase in mortality is driven by preterm delivery,” Pengetnze says. “It is mostly babies born at a gestational age of less than 24 weeks.”
PCCI has long been operating a program to target high-risk pregnant women to help them avoid preterm birth, the primary driver of infant mortality. The program helps them connect to prenatal care and overcome other barriers to seeing a provider. The Preterm Birth Intervention Program uses several factors to identify high-risk women signed up through the Parkland Community Health Program, a Medicaid managed care program. These women can sign up to receive text reminders to attend upcoming appointments and other educational interventions to prevent preterm births.
PCCI talks non-medical drivers of health data at Healthier Texas Summit
At the recent Healthier Texas Summit, Jacqueline Naeem, Senior Medical Director, Olayide Adejumobi, Associate Researcher and Guadalupe Negrete-lira, Manager, Connected Communities of Care, hosted an impactful 90-minute workshop. The session explored the potential for non-medical drivers of health (NMDOH)-related data to facilitate innovation between traditional healthcare settings and public health. During this workshop participants had the opportunity to share ideas on how to better integrate CHWs into healthcare systems, and improve collaboration.
Tech Titans Celebrates Dallas’ Vision For The Future, Honor’s PCCI’s Steve Miff
Tech Titans hosted a celebration of the past coupled with a vision for the future using the theme of “the future is now” which set the tone for the 2023 Annual Tech Titans Awards Gala presented by Dallas College at the Renaissance Dallas Plano Legacy West Hotel.
With an attendance of almost 430 people, the awards gala celebrated the achievements of 14 individuals and/or companies from the past year. This included honoring PCCI‘s CEO, Steve Miff, PhD, with Emerging Company CEO award.
Texas Christian University Magazine features PCCI’s medical breakthroughs
Texas Christian University Magazine features PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff, PhD, in a story about medical breakthroughs in an article titled: “IMAGINING MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS: Future doctors design solutions to health care challenges in a groundbreaking program.”
This story features a number of healthcare innovations, including those developed by PCCI, for example:
“If you enroll them in a diabetes-focused program, you might be addressing only one of the multiple things they are dealing with,” Miff said. Health care providers become used to treating problems sequentially, but that becomes a less effective strategy when, say, patients miss appointments because they struggle with issues like transportation or taking time off work.
PCCI, represented by CEO Steve Miff, was proud to be a finalist in the D Magazine Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards 2023 – Organization of the Year (Large). We were honored to share the stage with the winner, Make A Wish North Texas, and all the other organizations who are committed to serving the community. Being a finalist is a testament to the outstanding work our organization produces and the impact we have by supporting those who need help the most.
PCCI’s Preterm Birth Prevention Program Named A Top Data Analytics Tools for Population Health Management
HealthITAnalytics lists PCCI and Parkland Health‘s text-based risk stratification model for preterm birth prevention as a top data tool in a round up of population health management strategies:
“For example, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) and Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, have implemented a text message-based patient education program driven by a risk prediction model. The model uses NMDOH data to determine clinical and population-level interventions to prevent preterm births.”
PCCI is proud that its data analytics supports great causes like the power of the UWMD Aspire United 2030 Strategy – driving measurable impact in education, income, and health. Read from The Dallas Morning News Business Columnist Cheryl Hall on how the UWMD is building digital bridges to keep families connected to technology every day of the year with the support of PCCI’s data science.
We are very happy to share that PCCI is participating in this year’s North Texas Giving Day on Sept. 21. The North Texas Giving Day is one of the most significant non-profit fund raising events of the year with early giving is currently underway.
PCCI is built on its ability to innovate and deliver cutting-edge data analytics and modeling to healthcare providers and public health leaders.
Support from the North Texas Day of Giving will go directly to PCCI’s Innovation Fund which is dedicated to creating new innovating programs directed at helping those in our community who need help the most.
Supporting our Innovation Fund will have a direct and substantial impact on our ability to develop innovations that impact our population’s health and wellbeing. This includes programs like our Community Vulnerability Compass that offers unprecedented insights into the health of our communities, allows us to understand the root causes and delivers a clear picture of health equity issues we must address. https://pccinnovation.org/video-pcci-unveils-community-vulnerability-compass-giving-deep-insights-into-the-health-of-texas-communities/
During the last several years, PCCI has played an import role in supporting the health of Dallas County, with a number of important initiatives, which demonstrate the kind of programs your support can enable in the future:
– COVID-19: Proactive Pandemic Management. PCCI, Parkland, and Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) have collaborated from the outset of the pandemic to address the multiple challenges COVID-19 has presented to care providers and the community including public education, testing and vaccinations.
-Preterm Birth Prevention: To better serve pregnant women in our community, PCCI and PCHP developed and implemented an innovative Preterm Birth (PTB) Prevention program that uses a machine learning algorithm, healthcare data, and NMDOH to identify pregnant women who are at a higher risk of preterm birth.
-Building Connected Communities of Care – Dallas AHC Model: In 2022, the Dallas AHC model successfully completed its fifth (and final) AHC model year while continuing to exceed annual navigation requirements (connecting over 3,000 individuals annually with community resources and providing individual follow-ups for up to 12 months in the fourth year of the model), despite the challenges of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. PCCI’s preliminary analysis of Medicaid claims data has provided promising results in relation to reduced ED utilization and cost for beneficiaries engaged in the Dallas AHC model.
We thank you for your support of PCCI and of all the outstanding non-profits in North Texas. Please visit our profile and join us in our efforts to help those in our community that need help the most.
VIDEO: PCCI’s Sachs Summer Scholars Community Health Presentation
The Sachs Summer Scholars program has become one of the most meaningful and competitive internship programs in North Texas where women from around the country work side by side with PCCI data scientists and clinicians where they contribute directly to impactful programs. This video captures the intern’s presentations delivered earlier this month.
Now in its fifth year, PCCI’s Sachs Summer Scholars program is our women in technology, STEM-focused internship giving unrivaled opportunities for college and graduate school women from diverse backgrounds to receive active, hands-on experience working closely with PCCI data scientists and clinicians to directly contribute to public health projects involving cutting-edge statistical analyses, machine learning, and Non Medical Drivers of Health (NMDOH) innovation. These presentations will be a culmination of their summer efforts.
Our seven 2023 interns hail from university programs across the country and their projects all utilize NMDOH analytics with a focus on community health based on Dallas County, Parkland Health and PCHP initiatives. Specifically, these initiatives focused on data analysis from PCCI’s Community Vulnerability Compass, examination of asthma text-message data, geospatial and predictive NMDOH analysis of maternal outcomes, dashboard impact modeling, and quantifying access to childcare, healthcare, and food in Texas.
